From: John Benediktsson <mrjbq7@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:26:17 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: README: minor introduction changes.
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README: minor introduction changes.
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 # Factor
 
-The Factor programming language combines [powerful language
+Factor is a [concatenative](http://www.concatenative.org), stack-based
+programming language with [high-level
 features](http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Features/The%20language)
-with a [full-featured
-library](http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-vocab-index.html). The
-implementation is [fully
+including dynamic types, extensible syntax, macros, and garbage collection.
+On a practical side, Factor has a [full-featured
+library](http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-vocab-index.html),
+supports many different platforms, and has been extensively documented. 
+
+The implementation is [fully
 compiled](http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Optimizing%20compiler)
 for performance, while still supporting [interactive
 development](http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Interactive%20development).